A man's worth is established by the number of defining circumstances he is able to create for himself.

Belief has nothing to do with truth. Believe what you like.

I'd congratulated myself when I'd seen them — how clever I was to have read so many of these fancy-people library books.

You miss them as soon as the school bus takes them away in the morning, and you worry about them, you constantly worry.

Time passes, indifferent to me. So much of my life I have let slip by, because I have not attended to it.

The end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house.

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else.

We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

You're never alone when there's a book. Never ever.

One can only go for so long without asking 'who am I?', 'where do I come from?', 'what does all this mean?'

To be in love when the outcome is uncertain is an exquisite kind of agony.

Don't talk about it, or you'll upset yourself. Don't talk about it, or you'll upset me.